[chef] Why will hosted chef not work? SSL Validation failure connecting to host: s3-external-1.amazonaws.com

[David Montgomery < >]

Hi,

 I get the below error when trying to bootstrap a machine.  Is there an issue with hosted chef?  How do I resolve?

 - chef_handler
[2014-06-13T09:26:40-04:00] INFO: Storing updated cookbooks/environment/recipes/chef.rb in the cache.
[2014-06-13T09:26:53-04:00] ERROR: SSL Validation failure connecting to host: s3-external-1.amazonaws.com - SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read finished A

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Error Syncing Cookbooks:
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Unexpected Error:
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OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read finished A



Running handlers:
[2014-06-13T09:26:53-04:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2014-06-13T09:26:53-04:00] ERROR: Creating JSON exception report
  - Chef::Handler::JsonFile
Running handlers complete

[2014-06-13T09:26:53-04:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2014-06-13T09:26:53-04:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 27.19466371 seconds
[2014-06-13T09:26:53-04:00] INFO: Sending resource update report (run-id: 68494182-c6c5-4deb-abac-3b2a5408bd72)
[2014-06-13T09:26:54-04:00] ERROR: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read finished A
[2014-06-13T09:26:54-04:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
:/home/ubuntu# nano /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
Use "fg" to return to nano.